presentimental

English

Etymology

presentiment +‎ -al

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛntəl

Adjective

presentimental (comparative more presentimental, superlative most presentimental)

1. Of the nature of a presentiment; foreboding.
   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 13, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

     Amelia heard the claret bell ringing as she sat nervously upstairs. She thought, somehow, it was a mysterious and presentimental bell. Of the presentiments which some people are always having, some surely must come right.

   • 1849 (posth.) Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes and Lectures on Shakespeare and some of the Old Dramatists, "Notes on Macbeth":

     O! the affecting beauty of the death of Cawdor, and the presentimental speech of the king: […]